Games like Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon
If Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aviation Manager, Blueprint: EV and Tuggin It — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon: Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon is a simulation game where you take on the role of a shipping entrepreneur. Carefully plan shipping routes, balance supply and demand across ports, and maximize profits to fuel your expansion. Build a worldwide network and rise as the definitive global magnate.

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Aviation Manager
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Top pick for Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Choose your origin, create a route to nearby airports, choose the right plane, set a schedule for your flight. Maximize the use of planes, airports, transit routes, etc. to earn wealth, and expand routes to the world.
Blueprint: EV
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Second-strongest match for Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Blueprint: EV is a single-player strategy game about founding an electric vehicle company and running it through six fiscal years. Make five binding decisions at the start, then guide pricing, production, R&D, and finance across 24 quarters of real P&L and three rivals companies.
Tuggin It
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Third-strongest match for Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Drive a lil tug boat, haul cargo with a crane, and manage your warehouse storage, all while taking on some side-jobs when you can! Unlock and purchase upgrades to make tuggin it go a little smoother, and apply cosmetics so you're always tuggin it with style!
Worldwide Rush
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Shares route optimization, route planning, tycoon and a relaxing mood with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Ranked #4 for Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
Aislebound
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Ranked #5 for Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Aislebound is a first-person retail management simulator. Start with a small empty store and build it into a thriving retail operation by ordering inventory, stocking shelves, managing deliveries, hiring staff, and keeping customers satisfied.
Village Dealer Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Wheel and deal in a charming rural town! Drive your truck, negotiate with local farmers and ranchers, and upgrade your vehicle to maximize profits. Manage limited inventory and become the ultimate dealer in this captivating business.
Grub Truck
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Ranked #7 for Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Grub Truck is a food truck simulation game where you cook up mouthwatering meals, strategise enticing menus, set the perfect prices, complete quests and decorate your trucks with style. Invest your earnings wisely to upgrade your fleet as you build, cook, and conquer the culinary scene!
Yerba Mate Tycoon
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Ranked #8 for Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Yerba Mate Tycoon is a unique management game. You are taking care of a yerba mate production shop/company, create, customize various yerba mates, unlock new upgrades, and grow your company. Don't know what yerba mate is? Let's say it's a coffee alternative in South American countries.
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Transport Fever
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Shares route optimization and a contemplative mood with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Reviewers of Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Worldwide Rush
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Shares route optimization, route planning, tycoon and a relaxing mood with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Reviewers of Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
Port of Call
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Shares a contemplative mood with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Reviewers of Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.
Ports Of Call Deluxe 3D 2024
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Shares economy management, resource management, simulation and a relaxing mood with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Reviewers of Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Ports of Call Deluxe 2024 in 3D Version of the The classic trade- and shippingsimulation. Create your own Shiptrading company and also lern how to navigate. Multiple Players and stereo. created by Rolf-Dieter Klein and Martin Ulrich starting with the classic Amiga Version.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~62% under Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~62% under Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~42% under Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~52% under Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~62% under Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~62% under Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~62% under Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Rec Room
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Frequently asked about Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon
- Does Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon run on Steam Deck?
- Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon cost?
- Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon are Aviation Manager, Blueprint: EV, Tuggin It.
- Who developed Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon?
- Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon was developed by Aquila Chengdu and published by Aquila Interactive.
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